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This is for a two-day period earlier this week:

Fairfax, Virginia, Tuesday -- A 23-year-old man was fatally shot in "a home." (The story is unclear about whose home it was.)

Police are treating the incident as an accident pending further investigation.

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East Point, Georgia, Wednesday -- A 14-year-old boy fatally shot a 12-year-old friend with a shotgun in the older boy's home. His family was outside.

Police are treating the incident as an accident.

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Buffalo, New York, Wednesday -- A retired corrections officer accidentally shot himself in the thigh at a shooting range when he holstered his pistol with the safety off.

He was treated and released.

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Jacksonville, North Carolina, Wednesday -- A 21-year-old Marine was arrested and charged with murder after he shot a friend. The two men were reportedly playing a game that involved pointing a handgun at each other.

North Carolina law states that a person does not have to intend the consequences of their actions to be accountable for them. N.C. General Statute 14-17 states that the "commission of an inherently dangerous act in a reckless and wanton manner" constitutes a required element of malice needed to charge an individual with murder.

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- Jim

i agree that that was the purpose of the 2nd amendment. Unfortunately, it has not been true since 1935.

I missed this case, which also happend last weekend:

EDMONDSON, AR - A Mid-South grandmother could face jail time after her 6 year-old grandson was shot and seriously injured with her gun. Investigators in Crittenden County, Arkansas say the little boy's 9 year-old brother pulled the trigger.

The shooting happened Sunday, May 31, 2009 in the tiny town of Edmondson, Arkansas about 30 miles outside Memphis. Three days later, on Wednesday, the Crittenden County Sheriff's Department arrested 60 year-old Fannie Waterford and charged her with child endangerment, a class D Felony charge....

The little boy had surgery at Lebonheur and is expected to make a full recovery. Investigators say his older brother will not face any charges.

The weapon was a .22 rifle.

http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/lo ... 1jMwA.cspx" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

I agree that the term assault weapon was probably chosen for the criminal overtones of the word assault.

However, the word assault was originally a military term. An assault of a military target could be morally defensible (as in the D-Day assault, which began 65 years ago today) or not.

The term assault rifle comes from the German Sturmgewehr, which was an automatic carbine along the lines of the AK-47 or M-14. In this capacity, assault rifle has a legitimate meaning.

You can search for these terms on the web. Millions of words have been written about them and widely plagiarized.

- Jim

Every field has specialized terms that insiders use to distinguish themselves from outsiders. Sometimes these distinctions are useful, sometimes not.

Assault weapon is not a term that was ever used in the field of firearms. As far as I know, some "gun control" advocate invented it; and it became part of the 1994 federal "Assault Weapons Ban."

If someone hits another person over the head with a rock, isn't that an assault weapon?

- Jim

Oh, no! The eternal clip versus magazine argument.

Here is how it was explained to me: The magazine is the part of the firearm that holds ammunition. It can be removable (as in most pistols) or fixed (as in most shotguns and some rifles). The clip is a device that holds a number of rounds of ammunition so that they can be inserted into a fixed magazine.

http://www.thegunzone.com/clips-mags.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

All these incidents took place late Thursday, May 28, or on Friday:

Jackson County [Kansas City, Missouri] prosecutors on Friday charged a 24-year-old man with involuntary manslaughter after he allegedly shot his girlfriend in the chest while he was trying to clear his gun.

Prosecutors also charged Pervis D. Smith Jr. with armed criminal action in the death of 23-year-old Takiya L. Love on Thursday at their home in the 2000 block of Walrond Avenue. The couple has two children.

Witnesses told police that Smith was handling his gun when Love asked him to “stop playing with it and put it up,” according to court records. Smith ejected six rounds from the gun, then — apparently thinking the gun was empty — pointed it in Love’s direction and pulled the trigger.

Her sister and Smith drove Love to a hospital, where she died.

He told police the shooting was an accident and he “was very distraught” while talking to detectives, according to court records. According to the records, a man who possibly owned the gun took it away.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/1224076.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2009/05/kil ... h_jr_c.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Police in central California say a 2-year-old boy has died after being accidentally shot by his 3-year-old sister.

Bakersfield police Sgt. Greg Terry says the girl apparently found a .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun under her parents' bed Wednesday afternoon and accidentally shot her brother.

The wounded boy was taken to Kern Medical Center where he was later pronounced dead.

Police say the children's mother was in another area of the apartment at the time of the shooting. Their father was at work.

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[Orlando, Florida area] Dillon Charles, 16, sustained a gunshot wound to the head after accidentally shooting himself while handling a revolver, but his condition is unknown at this time.

The Deltona teen was alive but not responsive to deputies when they arrived at the scene. He was taken by helicopter to the Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona.

Charles was at a friend's house when the shooting occurred. The revolver belongs to the mother who lives at the residence.

"The mother told us she kept it hidden in her bedroom," said Gary Davidson, a spokesperson for the Volusia County Sheriff's Office. The mother was not home when the shooting occurred.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/loc ... ?track=rss" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

ONEIDA COUNTY, N.Y. -- An Oneida County man is in the hospital after he was shot during a hunting accident.

Oneida County Sheriff Deputies say William Wehnke was hunting a turkey Friday in the woods near his home in the Town of Annsville. Wehnke fired a shot at what he thought was the turkey and instead hit Matthew Brady, 26.

Brady, a private investigator, had been sent to the area to investigate Wehnke's worker's compensation case and had been laying [sic] in the woods doing surveillance. Deputies say that neither man knew the other was in the area.

Brady is in serious condition at St. Elizabeth's Hospital.

Wehnke has been charged with second degree assault.

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- Jim